I suppose I’ve had the service long enough I should blog something about it.

I’ve been running vonage as my main phone service for about a year now.

The main reason I got it was because I wanted unlimited long distance, and didn’t want to pay a crap load of money to get it.

The reliability has been just as good as a cell phone. Sometimes there’s service, sometimes there is not 🙂

The times there is no service has almost always been because of something on my end … like my internet was down 🙂 Other than that the sound quality is just as good as a phone, and when I don’t have a crap load of bandwidth being used by the .com I notice no difference. Since everything is hooked up so the voip gets priority I can still be using the internet with very little difference.

For $25 a month it’s not that bad of a deal. Recently I started paying taxes on the line, and I don’t notice a difference.

I don’t really get that many phone calls, but when I do call I don’t even thing about the fact that I’m calling thru the internet any more. It’s only when my internet connection is down that I have any inconvenience at all.

Of course having an out of state phone number isn’t really cool, and if I switched to an in state area code, it would still be long distance when people call me. So for now I’ll just keep my phone number, and wait for a local number.

I’m a linux fan. I’ve been using it as my main os for over 3 years now. This is SO cool. If I get a PS3 this means *I could program* things for it.

Truth is just being able to change songs on the server *while* I’m playing a game would be nice. Who knows. Since it would be running linux I wonder if ALT-F1 would be available. Who knows at any rate It’s good news for a PS and a linux fan.